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South Korean LG Group affiliate making camera modules, sensors, substrates and lidar components for automotive and consumer electronics.
Apple will unveil smart home devices developed with LG Electronics on October 13, a tie-up the Seoul Economic Daily sizes at 3.2 billion devices. That count holds only if LG appliances and Apple phones end up on one platform, which for now is a possibility.
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LG is flying five components from three affiliates on a startup's CubeSat aboard Nuri, the group's first joint test of its hardware in space. The parts are ground-proven commercial designs, so the flight tests whether existing LG products can serve satellites.
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LG Innotek plans to mass-produce Aeva lidar for robots next year and for a European automaker in 2028, after investing up to $50 million in the US firm. The stake's roughly 60% gain has not been realized, so any cash return depends on an exclusive Aeva supply deal that runs through 2030.
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Individuals net sold 459.8 billion won across five semiconductor ETFs in the first eleven days of September and put 90.1 billion won into the gold, nuclear, battery and power funds credited with the rotation.
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Apple's iPhone Duo has pulled a row of Korean and Japanese component makers into the foldable supply chain, and the Toyohashi adhesive plant is the only piece of it carrying both a committed number and a date.
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The samples are real and so is the physics, but SKC's Absolics panels are still being reliability-tested in Taiwan, and Intel, which promised glass in 2023, now points its own deployment at around 2030.
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Average first-half pay at SK hynix rose 23% to 144 million won across 36,042 people. Every hardware employer in Korea now recruits against a number it did not choose.
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LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid on Nvidia's Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T and Halos in Q1 2027. The deployment that matters lands first: CLOiD on a washing machine line in Tennessee.
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LG will put wheeled CLOiD robots on a Tennessee washing machine line by the end of 2026. The Nvidia-powered bipedal model it announced this week does not even get a public unveiling until Q1 2027.
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